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Product Features
The Google Search Appliance delivers highly
relevant, fast, easy-to-use search results to users across
all corporate content – including file servers, web servers,
document and content management systems, and enterprise applications.
What's New Snapshot - Version 5.0 Features |
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New Google Search Appliance version 5.0 features give users secure access to more content sources, with enhanced search quality and new user interface options.
Reach
Content Connector Framework
The connector framework makes it easy for partners, developers and customers to write connectors to any content system. We have provided pre-build connectors for the following ECM systems: Microsoft SharePoint, IBM FileNet, OpenText LiveLink, and EMC Documentum. Learn more about the Content Connector Framework.
Security
Google SAML Bridge - Windows Integrated Authentication
Google SAML Bridge provides support for Windows Integrated Authentication. When enabled, end-users will be not prompted for credential's when they enter search queries through their browser, instead the Google Search Appliance uses the same credentials that the user supplied for Windows domain while logging to their windows machine.
Secure file system crawling and serving
The Google Search Appliance provides support for secured crawling and serving of secured file shares.
SAML SPI enhancements
The Google Search Appliance provides support for SAML SPI. With this release, we have made significant performance
improvements to our SAML SPI framework. As a result,
customers who leverage the SAML SPI will see improved performance on their
secure search queries.
Search Quality
Date Biasing
The new Date Biasing feature allows administrators to influence the search ranking based on the age of the documents. Administrators can also specify the amount of influence Date Biasing should have in an easy-to-use web-based interface.
Google Enterprise Labs
Google is continuously innovating with new search technologies that enhance the search experience. Now, owners of a Google Mini or Google Search Appliance can download these new experiments from the Google Enterprise Labs site. These innovative experiments are supported by developer community and are not part of Google Search Appliance or Mini release yet.
Initial labs launch features include:
Search-as-you-Type
The new Search-as-you-Type feature allows users to add dynamic, real-time search to your Google Mini or Google Search Appliance user interface. Your search box will dynamically present suggestions and auto-complete queries before the user is even done typing. In fact, we've architected the feature so that you can use Search-as-you-Type on any text input field.
Do-It-Yourself KeyMatches
Let your users collaborate and improve your search results. Do-It-Yourself KeyMatch lets your users automatically promote specific web pages for certain search terms. In conventional KeyMatch, users have to ask their Google Search Appliance administrator to add the KeyMatches for them. Now, users can do it themselves in minutes. Administrators can still monitor what's been added and deleted.
Parametric Search
Your content already has great meta data? Wouldn't it be nice to give your users access to that information to help refine their search results? The Google Search Appliance support for parametric search makes it easy to using that metadata. Simply plug in this AJAX-based UI component, and see search in a whole new light.
The Google Search Appliance offers end users
many of the same benefits they have come to expect from Google.com
with specific enterprise enhancements that make search easy,
useful and intuitive:
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Dynamic Result Clustering |
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Enable users to drill down on a
specific subject and more easily refine their searches with
automated grouping of search results by topic. |
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Query Expansion in Additional Languages |
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Increase the number of relevant search results with query stemming and synonyms dictionaries for
French, Italian, German and Spanish and Portuguese. |
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Google Quality and Ranking |
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Find the highest quality and
most relevant documents; Google factors in more than 100
variables for each query. |
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Dynamic Page Summaries |
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Judge relevance of results
more easily with dynamically generated snippets showing
your query in the context of the page. |
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Results Grouping |
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Navigate search results easily
and clearly using intelligent grouping of documents residing
in the same narrow subdirectories. |
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Automatic Spellcheck |
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Avoid missing results through
typos or misspellings. Google automatically suggests corrections
with startling accuracy, even on company-specific words
and phrases. |
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Google Toolbar for Enterprise |
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Put a Google
search box in your
corporate browser. Installer package enables deployment
across your enterprise and custom search buttons enable
integration with your Google Search Appliance. |
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Google Desktop for
Enterprise |
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Search
content on your local
hard drive - files, email, IM chats, web pages viewed,
etc. Integrates with the Google Search Appliance to provide
search results from your computer, the intranet and the
Internet in a unified interface. |
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Cached Pages |
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View search results even when
the sites are down via cached copies of pages included
in the search results. |
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Highlighted Query Terms |
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Quickly find the most relevant
section of a document using the highlighted query terms
displayed on cached documents. |
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View as HTML |
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Display documents without
needing the original client application of the file format
thanks to automatic reformatting of over 220
file formats into HTML. |
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Sort by Date |
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Access time-sensitive information
first via date sorting. |
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Advanced Boolean Search |
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Perform complex and sophisticated
queries with over 10 special query terms, including Boolean
AND, OR, and NOT searches. |
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Number Range Search |
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Restrict search results by a
number range - makes it easy for users to restrict by price range or any other numerical value. |
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Date Range Search |
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Enables users to restrict search
results to a particular date range. |
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Source Biasing Options |
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Easily identify your organization's
authoritative content sources to enhance the relevance of search results. |
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Microsoft Sharepoint Support |
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Index and search content residing in Microsoft SharePoint 2003 and 2007. |
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OneBox for Enterprise [pdf] |
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Provide users with access to an infinite variety
of information sources from inside or outside your company.
Google OneBox for Enterprise provides a fast front end into
up-to-the-minute information across enterprise applications
and services -- including Cisco VOIP system, Cognos, Employease,
Oracle Applications, Salesforce.com, SAS and many more. |
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External Metadata Indexing |
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Index external metadata repositories and their
associated documents for easy searching across annotated
and enhanced content in document and content management systems. |
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File Server Crawler |
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Natively crawl CIFS file servers as simply and
easily as crawling web pages. |
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Databases [pdf] |
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Provide access to data stored
in your relational databases by crawling the content directly
from the database and serving the content in a number of
formats including IBM DB2, Microsoft SQLServer, MySQL,
Oracle and Sybase. |
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3rd Party Content Feed API [pdf] |
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Push non-web accessible content – content
from portals, content management systems, file shares -
into your Google Search Appliance with a simple XML conversion. |
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Continuous Crawler |
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New content is crawled on
an ongoing basis, insuring that new content appears in
search results fast. |
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Web Servers |
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Provide access
to content from all of your web servers regardless of
location. |
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Proxy Servers |
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Include externally
hosted company content via crawling of proxy servers. |
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Lotus Domino |
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Integrate with Lotus Notes
environments using fast, efficient crawling of Lotus
Domino servers. |
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Meta Tags |
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Deliver search
narrowing and filtering based on meta tag values and
display of meta tag values in search results. |
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File Types |
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Search more than 220
file types, including HTML, Microsoft Office, PDF,
PostScript, WordPerfect, Lotus and many others. |
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Languages |
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Restrict search
results to any of 28 auto-detected languages. |
Security and Access Control |
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The Google Search Appliance provides document and
user-level access control across all web-enabled enterprise content to ensure that
users only see search results for documents they're permitted to access.
Google's access control capabilities integrate with your existing
enterprise security systems, and enforce the policy already in
place in your content systems and applications.
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Secure Web Content |
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Enable secure searching of information protected
by basic HTTP authentication, NTLM version 1 and 2, as well as Windows Integrated
Authentication. |
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Enterprise Single Sign-On |
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Integrate with forms-based single
sign-on security systems, including Oblix and Netegrity,
to enable seamless searching across secure content. |
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Secure Content API |
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Search across secure content
using Google's SAML Authorization SPI to integrate into
existing access control systems. |
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x509 Client Certificates |
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Serve secure results to users
using mutually authenticated x509 client certificates. |
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Lotus Domino Security |
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Integrate with Lotus Notes environments
using fast, efficient crawling of Lotus Domino servers. |
Administration and Customization |
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Source Biasing Options |
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Easily identify your organization's authoritative content sources
to enhance the relevance of search results. |
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Google Analytics Integration |
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Understand how visitors are using your public website, and improve the effectiveness of your search results. |
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Auto-generate a sitemap for Google.com's crawler |
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Automatically build a sitemap you can submit to Google
Webmaster Tools so that Google.com can discover and crawl your public
website's content. |
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SNMP Monitoring |
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Monitor system health and appliance
crawling and serving
statistics via a standard SNMP interface. |
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Localized Administration |
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Administer your Google Search Appliance around the globe in 16
different languages. Full administration is now supported in Chinese
(Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish,
French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese
(Brazilian), Russian, Spanish and Swedish. |
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Web-Based
Admin Console |
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Configure multiple
logins and administrative roles for crawling, serving,
and monitoring with an intuitive, easy-to-use interface. |
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Unlimited
Collections |
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Segment the
search index to show different results to different users
(for example, by domain name, geography, job function,
etc.) |
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Filters |
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Easily restrict searches
to specific languages, file types, web sites, and/or
meta tags. |
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Synonyms |
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Define synonyms
for company-specific acronyms or terminology and have
those terms displayed as suggested alternative queries. |
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Keymatch |
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Define matches between URLs and keywords with targeted URLs displayed above the main set of search results. |
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Look and
Feel |
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Customize search
results layout pages using XSLT stylesheets. Provide
different branding on different areas of your site. |
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Reporting |
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View and export
daily and hourly result sets, top queries, special feature
usage and more. |
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URL Tracking |
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View analysis
of all crawled content to quickly identify problematic
servers, errors and sources of content. |
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RAID Support |
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Provides redundancy from
disk drive failures, increasing reliability and uptime. |
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Remote Diagnostics |
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Simplify maintenance
through optional remote diagnostics by Google support. |
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Google Enterprise Professional |
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Get access to Google
Search Appliance experts for specialized assistance
with integration and customization. |
Contact
sales for more information. |
